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Phthalate Exposure Affects Testosterone Levels and Fertility in Men

...hereby contributing to rising obesity rates and an epidemic of related disorders, such as Type 2 diabetes, said lead author Richard Stahlhut, M.D., M.P.H., a Preventive Medicine resident at the University of Rochester. The study was published today in the online edition of the journal Environmental Health Per...

Post Operative Complications More in Obese Patients

...iology. "One manifestation of this public health epidemic is that patients who are obese face a much higher likelihood of very serious problems following surgery," says co-author Olubukola O. Nafiu, M.D., FRCA, a resident in the Department of Anesthesiology. The study, a retrospective review of adult post...

Harbinger of Hope for Kala Azar Victims of Bihar

...i due to Kala Azar. Bihar last faced a Kala Azar epidemic in 1991 when 250,000 cases were reported. In 2000, the numbers were low but started rising from 2003. The disease occurs in 62 countries, primarily in the developing world. Around 90 percent of world cases are found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sud...

Medical Personnel Can Save More Lives by Screening for Oral Signs of Disease

...tist in the mid-1980s when the AIDS crisis reached epidemic proportions and saw many patients with HIV/AIDS, m...S is no longer in the news as much, it is still an epidemic that needs to be contained, and education is key," she explained. The New York City case rate of 45....

Biocon Unveils Renal Therapies for Kidney Disorders

...ealed that kidney disease has grown to be a silent epidemic in the 21st century. Every year millions of people across the world are diagnosed with end stage renal disease (ESRD) necessitating kidney treatments. "The total market size for nephrology products is about Rs.3 billion and is growing by about 20 p...

Assam Reports HIV Suicides, Treatment a Distant Dream

...t. Otherwise the entire efforts at controlling the epidemic would be futile," S.I. Ahmed, head of the AIDS Prevention Society, a leading community healthcare group in Assam, said. "Not being able to access treatment is a matter of serious concern." Source-IANS...

Excessive TV Viewing Linked to Poor Eating Habits in Children

...e most important thing to note is that the obesity epidemic in this country involves not just adults, not just adolescents, not just school-age children, but all the way down to infants. No age groups are spared. And once a child is obese, it is very hard to treat. So obesity prevention is the way to go." ...

Health-Care Workers Exposed to HIV on Job Need Preventive Treatment

...ers have worried about HIV exposure since the AIDS epidemic first began in the early 1980s. Since the virus that causes AIDS is transmitted through blood, a simple needle stick could infect anyone treating a patient. The risk, however, is quite low. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated i...

Schools Help Hold the Line Against Childhood Obesity

... increasing pressure on schools to help battle the epidemic of childhood obesity. As of last August, the University of Baltimore Obesity Initiative reported 32 states had enacted or proposed legislation regulating vending machines at schools, such as prohibiting certain types of high-fat and high-sugar food...

French Women can Get Fat

...is marketed and processed, the tide of the obesity epidemic will just rush forward, causing millions worldwide to suffer an early death or disability. There are other European countries, which have prepared the way for France. Sweden and Norway forbid broadcast advertising aimed at children. Ireland has...

A Call To Band Online Drug Pharmacies and Online Consultation by So Called “Cyber Doctor

...rnet pharmacies, are also largely to blame for the epidemic of “prescription addictions,” that are now rapidly becoming a global problem. It is believed that, prescription addiction abuse has already surpassed that of heroin and cocaine in some parts of the world. These findings have led to the call from doct...

Primary Health Care Parishioners of Second Largest HIV Infected Area in US Fail to Offer HIV Tests

...argest AIDS capital in the United States. The Aids epidemic has shifted largely to the Hispanics//. However its been found that primary care practitioners serving this segment of the population are often failing to offer either HIV testing or safer sex advice to their patients, according to a new UCLA AIDS In...

Disturbing Trend in AIDS Cases In US

...medicine at Oxford University in England, the AIDS epidemic has no signs of decreasing. He also called for a new approach to handle the prevention of fresh infection of HIV cases. Jaffe emphasized on the scientific approach rather than moral and religious methods of combating this issue. According to him,...

Vietnam may Face Dengue Fever Outbreak: Ministry

...ally recently. The ministry said that if a dengue epidemic surfaced, death tolls could overtake those of the 1998 outbreak, when over 400 people perished. The ministry instructed all provinces and cities to disburse all allocated funds to combat the fever. On Sunday, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Heal...

Six Medicos in Libyan HIV Case Plead Not Guilty

... in 1999 when they were accused of starting an HIV epidemic in a hospital in Benghazi in Libya. But according to scientists, the infections have begun much before the arrival of these medicos. But Libya was defiant and said that they would sort this issue internally. Two Libyan officials are said to have b...

Cases of Dengue Fever Rise Sharply in Paraguay

...ent Nicanor Duarte Frutos has not yet declared the epidemic to be a health emergency, despite several experts calling for the declaration. Dengue fever is a viral infection spread by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, with symptoms of high fever, nausea, rash, backache and headache. Some 10,148 Paraguayans hav...

E. Coli Bacteria Migrating Between Humans, Chimps

...isease, scabies and a polio-like virus have caused epidemic mortality in chimpanzees in some African locales. Source-Bio-Bio Tecnology SRM...

Dummy Emergency Operation Launched

... Health experts in Britain are wary of a bird flu epidemic hitting the nation and the exercise is meant to train medical and health professionals to handle the situation. Usually bird flu refers to the virus found chiefly in birds, but infections with these viruses have occurred in humans since 1997, in As...

Lard, Have Mercy

... next 10 years. Till the real reason for the fat epidemic is discovered, we are best doing what great Indian sages of yore advised- Eat less than your appetite, drink less than your desire and work less than your tolerance. <B...

Be Careful What You Touch, It can Make You Fat

...the Advancement of Science, attributed the obesity epidemic sweeping western countries to, in part at least, chemicals that disrupt the endocrine system. Performing clinical studies on rats, he noticed that pregnant mice when exposed to chemicals such as bisphenol-A (BPA) gave birth to low weight babies....

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